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     Mao Tsetung wrote an excell— 
     
     ent article entitled "Combat 
     
     Liberalism" in which he co- 
     
     gently pointed out how a B0— 
     
     urgeois Liberal reacts to 
     
     life's situations. The eleven 
     
     points he chose to illustrate 
     
     (there are others) are here 
     
     printed for your own personal 
     
     comparison -- with yourselfl! 
     
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     Liberalism manifests itself 
     
     in various ways. 
     
    

    
     To let things slide for the 
     
     * sake of peace and friendship 
     
     when a person has clearly 
     
     gone wrong. and refrain from 
     
     principled argument because 
     
     he is an old aquaintance, a 
     
     fellow townsman. a schoolmate, 
     
     'a close friend. a loved one, 
     
     an old colleague or old sub- 
     
     ordinate. or to touch on the 
     
     matter lightly instead of 
     
     going into it thoroughly, so 
     
     as to keep on good terms. 
     
     The result is that both the 
     
     organization and the indiVi— 
     
     dual are harmed. This is one 
     
     type of liberalism. ' 
     
    

    
     To indulge in irresponsible 
     
     criticism in private instead 
     
     of actively putting fosward 
     
     one's suggestions to the or- 
     
     ganization. To say nothing 
     
     to people to their faces but 
     
     to gossip behind their backs, 
     
     or to say nothing at a meet- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ing but to gossip afterwards.v 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     To show no regard at all 
     
    
   
   
    
     for the principles of collec— 
     
    
   
   
    
     tive life but to follow 
     
     one's own inclination. This 
     
     is a second type. 
     
    

    
     To let things drift if they 
     
     don't affect one personally: 
     
     to,say as little as possible 
     
     while knowing perfectly well 
     
     what is wrong. to be worldly 
     
     wise and play safe and seek 
     
     only to avoid blame. This is 
     
     a third type. 
     
    

    
     Not to obey orders but to 
     
     give pride of place to one's 
     
     own opinions. To demand 
     
     special consideration from 
     
     the organization but to re— 
     
     ject its discipline. This is 
     
     a fourth type. 
     
    

    
     " To indulge in personal att— 
     
     acks, pick quarrells. vent 
     
    
   
   
    
     "personal spite or seek reven- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ge instead of entering into 
     
     an argument and struggling 
     
     against incbrrect views for 
     
    
   
   
    
     the sake of unity or progress 
     
     or getting the work done pro— 
     
    
   
   
    
     perly. This is a fifth type. 
     
    
   
   
    
     To hear incorrect views with- 
     
    
   
   
    
     out rebutting them and even 
     
    
   
   
    
     to hear counter-revolutionary 
     
    
   
   
    
     remarks without reporting 
     
     them, but instead to take 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘them calmly as if nothing had 
     
    
   
   
    
     happened. This is a sixth 
     
     type. 
     
     To be among the masses and 
     
    
   
   
    
     to fail to conduct propaganda 
     
    
   
   
    
     and agitation or speak at 
     
     meetings or conduct in— 
     
    

    
     vestigations and inquiries 
     
     among them. and instead to 
     
    
   
   
    
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     he indifferent to them and 
     
     show no concern for their well 
     
     being, forgetting that one 
     
    

    
     is a Communist and behaving 
     
     as ifi one were an ordinary 
     
     non—communist. This is a se- 
     
     venth type. 
     
    

    
     To see someone harming the 
     
     interests of the masses and 
     
     yet not feel indignant. or 
     
     dissuade him or stop him or 
     
     reason with him, but to allow 
     
     him to continue. This is an 
     
     eighth type. 
     
    

    
     To work half—heartedly with— 
     
     out a definite plan or direc- 
     
     tion: to work perfunctorily 
     
     and muddle along —— "So long 
     
     as one remains a monk, one 
     
     goes on tolling the bell." 
     
     This is a ninth type. 
     
    
   
   
    
     To regard oneself as having 
     
     rendered great service to 
     
    

    
     the revolution, to pride one— 
     
     self on being a veteran. to. 
     
     disdain minor assignments 
     
     while being quite unequal to 
     
     major tasks, to be slipshod 
     
     in work and slack in study° 
     
     This is a tenth type. 
     
    
   
   
    
     To be aware of one's own 
     
     mistakes and yet make no at— 
     
     tempt to correct them. tak- 
     
     ing a liberal attitude towards' 
     
     oneself. This is an eleventh 
     
     type. 
     
    
   
   
    
     We could name more. But th— 
     
     ese eleven are the principle 
     
     types. 
     
    

    
     They are all manifestations 
     
     of liberalism.